USSVI National Convention 2016
Reno, NV
August 15 – August 20, 2016
Welcome To Reno, Shipmates!...
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Heroes Beneath the Waves
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USS Sennet - USS Quillback - Charles Cotter - Its hard to remember most of my shipmates. AGE now 88. I was on Quillback first half of 1960 in KWest and then to Grenadier as XO, shore duty at NAS JAX on staff ASW GRU 10 and Feb 64 to Sep 65 as CO SENNET. Nov 68 to SEP 69I was on staff ASW GRU 5(?) on the HORNET. I remember our Chopper squadron wore Carolina blue ball caps. I too served in those three wars, 46-47 on the
SICILY as ' then navy paid my college an commissioned Mar 51 and retired Mar 73
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June 26, 1950 the Korean War begins. Melvin T. Smith (sonar)served aboard the USS Sea Fox (SS-402) with Captain Ira Dye.
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Joseph T. Blanchett was assigned to the USS Seal (SS-183) in August 1943, when it sailed on its eighth war patrol. Joe is a friend, I have known him and his wife for over twenty years. His story is in my book, "Heroes Beneath the Waves...